Arched over it was a slender brass lamp with a globe shaped like a lush purple morning glory.

A saddle of purple morning glories was cinched to the fence, the chicken wire now swaybacked from the weight of the vines.

There were deep purple morning glories called Grandpa Otts, and brownish-mauve ones with white edges called Chocolate.

A graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, she was championed by Ruskin, and her watercolor of a purple morning glory stands out here.

In 1970, Mrs. Whealy's Grandpa Ott died, and she found herself the custodian of the royal purple morning glory strain that he brought to Iowa when he emigrated from Bavaria.

She was taking the understated road (a small ceramic tree on her deck; silver-foil ropes twined around the purple morning glories out front), which is not the way to stand out among Lone Oak's 500 campsites.

One jar held seeds of a purple morning glory with a red star in its throat; another, a succulent pink tomato that can grow as big around as a dinner plate; the third a pole bean called Snipple.

The species shares some features with the close relative Ipomoea purpurea.

Ipomoea purpurea (I)

But farmers take a dim view of wild Ipomoea purpurea; for them, tall morning glories are a noxious vine that can reduce crop yields.

- Norma H. Mandel, New City, N.Y. A. The common morning glory (Ipomoea purpurea) is a quick-growing tropical annual that will not survive another season and must be grown anew from seed next year.